Archive of
discoveries for 2006–2012

Jiří Kroupa, son of Adolf Kroupa,
director of organizing committee of great Regional exhibition in
1929, identified number of photographs and borrowed us for
digitization photographs not preserved in our archive. With 311
photographs, the reportage from the exhibition is the largest made
by Šechtl and Voseček.

Mr. Poustka donated to our
archive 3 boxes of negatives he saved from larger amount of boxes
thrown away from garage in Budějovická street. The negatives are
originated from Šechtl and Voseček studios and we hope that perhaps
more of negatives was saved from this previously unknown storage.
The negatives will be digitized soon.

We would like to thank to Ed
Hamrick, author of excellent VueScan scanner software. He added
number of features critical for our needs of digitizing archive old
historical negatives. Recently he added feature needed to properly
expose wrongly colored base of Orwocolor negatives. Without his
effort, our digitization project would be significantly more
dificult and expensive.

Rostislav Čech identified and
partly dated majority of photographs from Pelhřimov. We've also
started to organize photographs from Pelhřimov to subcategories,
since we expect the number of them to grow significantly when we
start to digitize Pelhřimov part of archive, since in the city was
also Šechtl and Voseček studios.

Vladimír Staněk identified number
of photographs not only from Pelhřimov and surrounding villages.
The photograph above from negative 6334 found published in book
“Vlaštovky se vracejí”. It is located in Pelhřimov and the second
priest from left is Msgre. F. B. Vaněk. Newly identified
photographs are: 0916,
0977, 5777, 6155, 6334, 6901, 7815, 7817, kinofilmy: 2416, 2417, 2418, 2420, 3704, 3705, 3706, 3707, 3708. Děkujeme!

Yvetta Dörflová, Museum of Czech
Literature, identified and exactly catalogized number of
photographs of relatives of famous writer
Božena Němcová, who was photographed in Šecht and Voseček
studios. On the photograph is pomologician Karel Němec, son of
Božena Němcova, who was married with sister of Kateřina Šechtlova,
second wife of Ignác Šechtl.

Jiří Čikeš donated to our
collection 36 hand coloures slides and several negatives. The
slides were most likely prepared for the Tourist club. We are very
grateful for this discovery and donation!

Jan Králík has identified the
photograph on glass plate negative 7112 originaly described as
“threshing-machine”. The picture is of a stationary engine, which
is providing power for the threshing machine, inside the barn.
Stationary engines like this were used to provide power for many
different tasks, such as threshing, sawing timber, cutting chaff,
driving lathes, and so on. According to Vladimír Olšanský, the engine might be an
internal combustion engine, as there is no visible steam
boiler.

PhDr. Eva Uhrová proved our
hypotesis that on slide 0029 is granddoughter of famous
writer Božena Němcová, Marie Záhořová-Němcová. She also identified
more portraits and photographs
of her doughter Eva. We are
grateful also for short biography of Marie she wrote, that is
published on Czech version of our page. Marie Záhořová (1859-1930)
was in 1920s famous social worker.

Filip Paulus identified speaker
on negatives 3399 a 3394 as prime minister Dr. Jaroslava
Krejčího, and speaker on negative 3398 as minister of agriculture
Adolfa Hrubého. He also sent us scan of additional photo from the
same even we didn't found negative for yet. The photographs are
probably from visit of Adolf Hrubý 1942. These are the only
photographs by Josef Šechtl of official events during occupation we
know of since the whole archive from this era was lost.

This photograph (ifilm0153) is not portrait of actor
Ladislav Pešek (as the was
mentioned on evelope with it), but Jaroslav Vojta. This mistake was
noticed by Pep.
According to the biography of Jaroslav Vojta, he was member of
National Theatre only till year 1959, while this photograph was
probably taken 4 years later 1963.

Pavel Schafferhans has
reproduction of the same photograph as on slide 0028 and informed us, that
the person sanding is writer Roman Cikhard and the photo was taken
during celebration of 500th anniversary of castle Borotín,
1934.